“Cities may already have plans, but the state is not always aware of how up-to-date those plans are. It's a base on which improvements can be made.”
Adam Liegeot
“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”
Aristotle
“Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life”
“You shouldn't have to sacrifice who you are just because somebody else has a problem with it.”
Sex and the City
“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
Thomas Jefferson
“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”
George Orwell